>> Dr. Delgado: So what do you personally follow
as a regime that you believe is going to help you to have that better quality of life?
>>Dr. Savage: Happiness, humor,
Live, Love, Laugh, learn, >>Dr. Delgado: Yes. >>Dr. Savage: That's my motto every day
>> Dr. Delgado:Yes. >>Dr. Savage: I have 12 rules that I live by that I've
developed from many different people, including some from you,
>> Dr. Delgado: Yeah. >>Dr. Savage: that I make sure I do every day because these are my main stays
of keeping me on >>Dr. Delgado: Yes >> Dr. Savage: my by balancing, and that is as I mentioned
all about balance and happiness. You can break it down into buckets if you
want to:
there is nutrition, this is my exercises, my sleep, this is my stress
management,
and this is everything else, including my supplements and my hormones.
>> Dr. Delgado: Yes. So when you look at this field
of anti-aging and lifestyle medicine
is there a way with your software to help doctors to
integrate this into your practice more effectively?
I feel like it the first time doctor comes and its a little overwhelming
to go from a what you mention, your average doctor has very little nutritional training
How do they know what test to do ? What supplements do they
offer their patients?What hormones? What dosages? >> Dr. Savage: overwhelming is a kind
word. >>Dr. Delgado: It's understated. >>Dr. Savage: Here I am 13 years later I still
hear people talking and I'm like we are still getting
getting the next layer of this onion down and finding the more you get
into this
after 15 years, the more you realize we don't know
a lot. >>Dr. Delgado: But what we do know>>Dr. Savage: But what we do know, >>Dr. Delgado: Is probably more
important at this stage but what you don't know you have to inform people
so they're aware
>>Dr. Savage: The amount that we do know is extremely powerful >>Dr. Delgado: Yes.
>> Dr. Savage: You mentioned how the software helps clinicians and patients alike.
In the field of lifestyle medicine there had not been yet developed a software
platform that a physician could use in his office; which was an EMR,
a patient management system, a patient portal,
how the exchange of communication can go on between the physician and patient
because
we know one thing for certain: the more time the patient has in contact with the
health care provider
the more the patient absorbs through osmosis, by education, and by experience
So its connecting those dots by giving the physicians something that is clinically
useful
so they the run the practice integration with all the major labs: Quest, Lab Corps,
Genova, ZRT,
the excessive number of supplement companies that we have in there,
being able to compound medicine, eprescribe medicine,
schedule your patients, library of information that you can share back and
forth with the patients.
Those are the things that the clinician needs to run his practice
but then it goes a step beyond that by providing that communication channel
of being able to allow the practitioner to have more consistent
interaction with his patient even through the system
which doesn't require the physician to do it on a daily
basis. But it's looking like we're having this
ongoing daily connection with this patient because the reminding of the patient
in order to breaking old habits, in order to establish new ones
takes a constant vigilance. >>Dr. Delgado: When you
look over your career. what
legacy do you want to leave? >>Dr. Savage: That's a great question.
I would like to be one of the people
that helps bring integrated lifestyle medicine out of
more relative obscurity into more of a
mainstream, well researched,
well respected, well accepted field of medicine. We've come
a long way the whole field and it would be
very egotistical for us to say it was us, when there have been so many people out in
this industry
that it works so very hard for so many years
to push this ball down the road. It's exciting
for me to be here today at this point where
integrative medicine is now a primary specialty by the American Board
of Physician Specialists. Where now many number
of institutions, including George Washington University's coming out with
fellowships
in integrative medicine. So the part of the legacy I'd like to be involved
in
is a part of this ongoing movement. >>Dr. Delgado: So
we believe that mentorship is important and
tell me the 10 mentors that you would point to who probably
made a profound difference in your life. >>Dr. Savage: In the clinical world or in my personal life?
Because I don't know when you question your asking. >>Dr. Delgado: Let's start with the clinic
and then
we'll go to personal. >> Dr. Savage: the clinical people that have made the greatest impact me in my
life
John Shakrin, who was my mentor medical school. He was Dean of the medical
school. He
retired and had one more rotation with the medical students
and he taught me one of the most valuable lessons in medicine
and that was: number one, never surprise your patients, and number two, always be there
when they get surprised.
That is how I have formed my relationship with my patients from the
very first
Then would be Pam Smith, who I was very lucky to be involved with
in developing the Fellowship of Anti-Aging, that was developed in the early 2000
I I would say Pat Hanaway
Who I always consider
my right hand man for anything that I don't have a clue what's going on
The man's wealth of knowledge, its depth is excessive
Ron Rothenberg,the man taught me more about mentorship,
at he knows more than I'll ever learn.
Let's see... I can save you for last. You were integral
for me in clinical practice on
highlighting for me the importance of nutrition and actually how simple it
was
because I want to make I want to make everything complex and
why didn't I know this? It must have been so complex
But its really very simple. >>Dr. Delgado: Right. >>Dr. Savage: You can learn all the biochemical pathways, and
I have.
You can learn all the enzymes that are associated with things, and I have
But that's not what you need out of the gate.
>> Dr. Delgado:Right. >> Dr. Savage: The people who have influenced me in my personal life
um...I would say my best friend, who is 70
he's taught me so much about the happiness of living life,
my partner Tim, showed me the value of loving and laughing
every day. I'm a very lucky individual. I
recently got married and I had seventy people in one room who have impacted my
life over the course of a lifetime
I was very very grateful to have every one of them there. >> Dr. Delgado: Social connections so important.
>>Dr. Savage: Social networking, yes. You ask the blue zone people
and they'll tell you it's all about being connected. When we get older and we
isolate
and even if you're not older, that there was a part of time in my life
where I got so involved in work that I isolated myself from everything else
and i ended up crashing hard at one point. And that's when I came to
spend time with you to help dig myself out of all that
>> Dr. Delgado: And when you mention blue zone
for those who may not know, it's the longest lived people with the best quality of life
>> Dr. Savage: Its the places around the earth that
have all the people who have gathered together and are in their nineties and early
100
They tend to gravitate because they understand each other and know that those other
people that many interviewed
they have 9 simple rules
if you want to live a good and long life
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